Libelle Publishing House

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Libelle is an independent publisher founded in 1979 and based on Lake Constance. Biographies , fiction , theater plays, scientific satires, educational non-fiction books and the cultural history of the Lake Constance area are the focus of the publisher.

history

The publishing house was founded on April 1, 1979 by Ekkehard Faude. From 1979 to 1991 the publisher's books were published in Konstanz-Litzelstetten, then in Konstanz-Petershausen, under the name Faude Verlag. In 1991 the editor Elisabeth Tschiemer joined them. The publishing house was renamed "Libelle Verlag" after the publishing house's logo, the Libelle , which had been in use since 1980 and was jointly re-established south of Konstanz in the canton of Thurgau. From 1991 the place of publication was Bottighofen in the canton of Thurgau (Switzerland), since 1994 Libelle has been based in the neighboring municipality of Lengwil .

Awards for “Libelle” books include: Rauriser Literature Prize 1997 - together with Felicitas Hoppe - for Katrin Seebacher ( morning or evening ), Lake Constance Literature Prize 1997 for Manfred Bosch ( Bohème am Bodensee ), German Crime Prize 2000 for Ulrich Ritzel ( Schwemmholz ), sponsorship award from the German Literature Fund 2003 for Uta Titz ( Stella Runaway ), Burgdorfer Krimipreis 2004 for Ulrich Ritzel ( The Prophet's Dog ), Erwin Schwartz Primary School Award 2006 to Heide Bambach.

The image of the publisher was also shaped early on by the rediscovery of older authors - such as Lilly Braumann-Honsell ( Small world - large world. Women experience a century on Lake Constance , 1981); Carl Spindler (The Schwertbergers, 1982), Joseph Albrecht von Ittner (The beautiful executioner, 1983) Jacob Picard ( Works, 1991), Franz Michael Felder (From my life, 2004) and Nelly Dix (Oh, my friend who is virtue good, but love is better , 2011).

The most successful rediscovery came with the novels, stories, poems and expedition diaries by Fritz Mühlenweg, which were continuously edited from 1991 to 2006 . Ekkehard Faude, who contributed biographical afterwords to all books, was won over by the Allensbach community to curate a Mühlenweg museum from 2008 onwards . This museum, which is supported by the Marbach Literature Archive as a literary memorial , was opened in June 2012 in the old train station in Allensbach.

Right from the start, the program work also demonstrated a joy of discovery. The following were made known on the German-speaking book market with their first book: Tobias Engelsing ( Menschen im Paradies ; 1981); Ernst Peter Fischer ( The world in your head ; 1985), Heide Bambach ( invented stories tell it right ; 1989), Katrin Seebacher ( morning or evening ; 1996), Yasmina Reza ( KUNST ; 1996), Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt ( the visitor ; 1997), Angelika Overath ( dealer of lost colors ; 1998), Ulrich Ritzel ( Der Schatten des Schwans ; 1999), Ilse Helbich ( Schwalbenschrift ; 2003), Uta Titz ( Stella Runaway ; 2003), Sigrid Faltin ( The Baroness and the Guggenheim ; 2005), Bernadette Conrad ( Nomads in the Heart ; 2006), Thomas Wörtche ( The Murderous Beside Life ; 2008), Maria Bosse-Sporleder ( The sea is in the fifth suitcase ; 2012) and Ilse Rau ( My Mara Years ; 2016 ).

At the beginning of 2018, the publishing house owners decided to slowly phase out the publishing house.

program

The publishing program includes around 120 titles (as of mid-2018). These include the German-language translations of Yasmina Reza's theater plays Art , Three Times Life and The God of Carnage . In addition, works by Heide Bambach, Manfred Bosch , Hans Brügelmann , Nelly Dix , Sigrid Faltin , Ilse Helbich , Christoph Meckel , Fritz Mühlenweg , Angelika Overath , Georges Perec , Ulrich Ritzel , Katrin Seebacher , Uta Titz (Krazy), Peter Stobbe are featured and Thomas Wörtche .

The theme of Lake Constance as an open European cultural area was mainly by Arno Borst ( Ritte über den Bodensee , 1992; Mönche am Bodensee , new edition 2010) and Manfred Bosch ( Bohème am Bodensee , 1997).

With the high-circulation books by the author and editor Hans Brügelmann , the publishing house became known from 1983 (children on the way to writing) to 2005 (discovering the school) , especially in the field of reading and writing didactics. From 1986 a total of six yearbooks of the "German Society for Reading and Writing" (DGLS) were published. Invented stories tell it right (1989) by Heide Bambach, the head of the elementary school at Hartmut von Hentig's Bielefeld laboratory school, was published several times. The book by Hans Brügelmann and Erika Brinkmann (Discovering the Scriptures, 1984), which has been reprinted several times , has been running since 1998 in a completely revised version under the new title Inventing the Scriptures.

There have also been works of art history on Walter Kaesbach , Walter Matysiak , Fritz Mühlenweg, Matthias Holländer and Hans Sauerbruch with contributions by Christoph Bauer, Ekkehard Faude, Adolf Muschg , Matthias Sauerbruch and Barbara Stark.

exhibition

  • 2019/2020: "This publishing company likes to be humorous - but at the same time means it seriously." The flight of the dragonfly. 40 years of publishing history. Hesse Museum Gaienhofen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Libelle Verlag: Zigzag flight and a slow farewell. thurgaukultur.ch, February 6, 2018.
  2. ↑ Press text Mühlenwegmuseum Allensbach , accessed on July 5, 2018.
  3. ↑ Hum on Lake Constance. The publishing house "Die Libelle". Deutschlandfunk , May 27, 2003
  4. ↑ Description of the exhibition on the museum website, accessed on October 8, 2019.
  5. ↑ Barbara Paul: Libelle-Verlag celebrates its 40th anniversary in the Hesse Museum Gaienhofen. Audio broadcast from SWR2-Literatur on October 2, 2019, accessed on October 11, 2019.